Kuria accuses DPP of ‘cutting corners’ in bail revocation case

December 15, 2015 4:09 pm

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By OLIVE BURROWS, Kuria’s lawyer Danson Mungatana told Capital FM News that the prosecution would need to file a formal appeal for the High Court to properly take up the matter/FILENAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 15 – Gatundu South MP Moses Kuria has opposed, on a technicality, an attempt by the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to have his bail revoked in an incitement to violence case he’s facing.

Kuria through his lawyer has argued that the High Court lacks the jurisdiction to hear the DPP’s office on the matter as bail review falls under the purview of the trial court.

Kuria’s lawyer Danson Mungatana told Capital FM News that the prosecution would need to file a formal appeal for the High Court to properly take up the matter.

“We’ve objected on a technicality,” Mungatana said.

The Office of the DPP moved to the High Court on December 12 to challenge the decision by Chief Magistrate Daniel Ogembo to release Kuria on a Sh1 million cash bail in the case in which Kuria is accused of inciting his constituents to violence.

Videos on YouTube show the legislator calling on his Constituents to, “cut with machetes,” those opposed to National Youth Service projects.

He was responding to the vandalisation of clinics, toilets, water tanks and pipes installed by the NYS in Kibera when former Devolution Cabinet Secretary and Opposition leader Raila Odinga differed in June over fraud at the agency.

OLIVE BURROWS With a decade of storytelling under her belt, Olive Burrows has been with Capital FM for the last four years and perhaps most notably interviewed US President Barack Obama. Committed to asking the hard questions and telling the story in the most engaging way possible, she has also interviewed Melinda Gates, a UK Minister and severally had the opportunity to sit across from President Uhuru Kenyatta and address the pressing issues of the day. Other notables she has had occasion to seek answers from are UN Secretary General António Guterres and John Kerry in his time as US Secretary of State.